Thanks Marbux, I was [partially] surprised that they said Excel was the biggie, I heard from a CCC conference, albeit a while back, that Vista had all their old known issues, at least at the outset, that they had identified about 90% of the most-buggy DLLs were identical to XP on the inside :)
ben On Nov 29, 2007 5:57 PM, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 29, 2007 5:16 PM, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6220719.html > > fun yet brief article, explains about a huge increase in known flaws > > from MS, > > mostly in Excel, and then explains that it is due to the increased > > profitability of finding flaws... > > I just want to know if that profitability is legitimate or bound to > > criminal activity. > > > > From what the article is saying, it sounds like it is criminal activity. > My guess would be that a good part of the increase is due to the > documentation for the "kind of XML" Office Open XML formats released when > the specification for the formats was released as a standard by Ecma in > December, 2006. (6,037 pages). The formats are largely a dump to XML of the > in-memory binary representations of documents and the specs offer tons of > clues about how the Office major apps' internals function. I know the > earlier release of the schemas for the Officde 2003 XML formats aided our > tech guys' efforts tremendously in successfully reverse engineering the > native file format support APIs for Word and Excel. > > And the Microsoft Knowledge Base is a treasure trove of known persistent > bugs in Office. So lots of information to work with, with an incredible > boost last December. > > Best regards, > > Marbux > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >
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